Improvement in corn-planters



UNrrD STATES PATET JOSIAH S. RIOKEL, OF GENESEO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTE RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,295, dated September 25, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. S. RIOKEL, of Geneseo, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Corn-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable other persons skilled in the art to make and use the same,

reference being bad to the accompanying simple manipulation on the part of the operator the seed may be dropped and covered at the points where the furrows intersect each other, the field being furrowed both ways previous to the dropping or planting of the corn.

A represents a beam having two bars, B B, attached to it, one at each side, in an oblique position, and connected by cross-rods a a. O is a vertical plow-standard attached to the rear end of the beam A, and secured in position by braces D D. E is the plow, attached to the lower end of the standard (J; and F is the corn box or hopper, secured between the braces D D, directly in front of the standard 0. Thelower front side of the corn box or hopper is inclined backward, so as to leave a slot or opening, I), between its lower end and the rear side of the hopper for a slide, G, to work through. This slide G is provided with a vertical oblong opening, 0, which. may be reduced in capacity as desired by means of a slide, d, fitted in a vertical groove, 0, in the front of the slide, and secured in position by a set-screw,f, as plainly shown in Fig. 8. This slide G has a vertical oblong slot made in it, through which the beam A passes, said slot extending up to the top of the slide and having its ends fitted in a shaft, g, the journals of which are fitted loosely in the front end of a lever-frame, H, the fulcrum of which is on the outer cross-rod a of the oblique bars B B.

The sides h h of the lever-frame H extend a shortdistance beyond the bars B B and serve as handles, and the upper end of each side i of the slide G is fitted in a hole, j, in the shaft 9, and secured by a pin, it, several holes being made in the sides 11 to admit of the slide being adjusted higher or lower, as. may be desired. (See Fig. 1.)

In the lower part of the front side of the hopper F there is fitted a piece of india-rnbber, I, or other suitable elastic material, to serve as a cut-off for the openingcin the seedslide G. The inner end of this cut-01f is bev eled or cut obliquely, so that its upper edge will bear against the slide, as shown in Fig. 1.

The operation is as follows: The corn box 'or hopper F is supplied withcorn, and the device is drawn along by a single horse, the plow E running in the furrows made one way in the field, it being understood that the field should be previously furrowed both ways, so that the furrows will cross each other at right angles and form check-rows. Each time the plow E intersects or comes in con tact with a cross-furrow the operator raises the outer end of the frame H, thereby depressing the inner end of the same and forcing down the slide G, the seed contained in the opening 0 dropping into the earth where the furrows intersect each other, and the plow E is sufficiently raised by the elevating of the outer ends of the handles to escape or pass over the dropped corn and cover it with earth.

The quantity of corn to be dropped at each dropping is regulated by adjusting the slide (1.

Implements constructed substantially the same as the plow portion of the device herein described have been used in different sections of the W estern States for covering corn. They are commonly termed cornjumpers, and answer an admirable purpose for covering corn, savin great deal of labor.

By my improvem entto wit, the applying of a corn-dropping device to the jumperthe corn may be dropped and covered at the same time, thereby adding greatly to the value of hopper F, arranged and applied tothe corn the device. coverer 0r jumper substantially in the man- Having thus described my invention, I ner as and for the purpose herein set forth.

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters JOSIAH S. RIOKEL. Pa-tent- \Vi tn esses:

The lever-frame H, with seed-slide G at- WILLIAM HARBAUGH,

cached, in connection With the corn box or ADAM H. RARER. 

